How To Install nova-volume on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-volume on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nova-volume
nova-volume is:
OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This is a dummy transitional package that can be removed after upgrade.
Package: nova-volume Architecture: all Version: 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: net Source: nova Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 40 Depends: cinder-api, cinder-scheduler, cinder-volume Filename: pool/main/n/nova/nova-volume_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 4492 MD5sum: 05350480bcbfb4d3372d66b3781eef7b SHA1: 399f6348b2f1593ead669bb21b97c952cf753e75 SHA256: e3a690b2dab9b7b93a2231967446f9dd2fb028acd2d23cbc8343d229bdeac746 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - storage OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This is a dummy transitional package that can be removed after upgrade.
There are three methods to install nova-volume on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nova-volume Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-volume using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-volume
Install nova-volume Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-volume using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-volume
Install nova-volume Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-volume using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-volume
How To Uninstall nova-volume on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nova-volume package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-volume
Uninstall nova-volume And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-volume and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-volume
Remove nova-volume Configurations and Data
To remove nova-volume configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-volume
Remove nova-volume configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-volume configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-volume
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-volume package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
